This book deservedly won an Indie Book Award, and it’s a beautiful read, a beautiful gift-book, and a well-designed coffee-table-book for that low beautiful table where the computer tablet rests, connected to the internet.

Stories, poems and essays by multiple authors are very pleasingly woven together with gorgeous artwork and links (via web addresses or scannable squares) to music and voice. It’s the ultimate multi-media book experience I guess, which didn’t initially endear it to me, but I’m a convert. I loved it! I found myself remembering the college friend who inspired me to appreciate classical music through math. With this book, readers might learn to appreciate sound and art through story.

The interactive aspects of the book are never intrusive. A reader can appreciate the writing and art without a computer. A non-reader can appreciate the links alone. And a busy reader can set the music playing while reading something else, then stop, absorbed by voice. The stories are powerful, thought-provoking, and span the world. The images run from joyous bright photograph, to paint-splashed wonder, to hands clasped over the sheet of Fur Elise. And the music plays from soft-spoken poetry to haunting melody. Highly recommended.

Disclosure: I was offered a free copy by a publicist and I offer my honest review ( )